机器人靠经验自学哪些地形能走,无需预先标注数据。
I Move Therefore I Learn: Experience-Based Traversability in Outdoor Robotics
- 用高度和纹理构建多层地图,通过变分自编码器提取特征。
- 首次人工驾驶收集数据,聚类形成可复用的通行区域模型。
- 不依赖目标场景数据,跨平台、实时适应新地形,适合户外移动机器人。
准确的通行性估计对复杂环境中室外机器人的安全高效导航至关重要。本文提出一种基于经验的新方法,使机器人能自主学习哪些地形可通行,无需依赖大量预标注数据。该方法将高程与纹理数据融合到多层网格地图中,并使用通用纹理数据集训练的变分自编码器(VAE)进行处理。在初始遥控阶段,机器人在环境中移动并采集感知数据,这些经历被编码为紧凑的特征向量,并通过BIRCH算法聚类,以高效表示可通行区域。部署时,机器人将新地形片段与已学特征簇对比,实时评估通行性。该方法无需在目标场景中训练,可泛化至多种表面和机器人平台,并随新地形动态适应。在合成基准和真实世界场景中对轮式与腿式机器人的广泛测试表明,其有效性、鲁棒性和适应性优于现有先进方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate traversability estimation is essential for safe and effective navigation of outdoor robots operating in complex environments. This paper introduces a novel experience-based method that allows robots to autonomously learn which terrains are traversable based on prior navigation experience, without relying on extensive pre-labeled datasets. The approach integrates elevation and texture data into multi-layered grid maps, which are processed using a variational autoencoder (VAE) trained on a generic texture dataset. During an initial teleoperated phase, the robot collects sensory data while moving around the environment. These experiences are encoded into compact feature vectors and clustered using the BIRCH algorithm to represent traversable terrain areas efficiently. In deployment, the robot compares new terrain patches to its learned feature clusters to assess traversability in real time. The proposed method does not require training with data from the targeted scenarios, generalizes across diverse surfaces and platforms, and dynamically adapts as new terrains are encountered. Extensive evaluations on both synthetic benchmarks and real-world scenarios with wheeled and legged robots demonstrate its effectiveness, robustness, and superior adaptability compared to state-of-the-art approaches.
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